From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-07-10T04:23:39+09:00
Subject: Re: String#split converts string args to regexes -- ?

b-d, IMHO (more versitle)

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 10:30, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: String#split converts string args to regexes -- ?"
>     on 02/07/09, Stepan Kasal <kasal@matsrv.math.cas.cz> writes:
> 
> |Thus I think either split() should be changed in a fairly restrictive manner
> |(accept only one-char strings or Regexp) or gsub should not automatically
> |convert strings to regexps.  I vote for the later alternative.
> 
> 
> sub/gsub
> 
>  (a) prohibit string pattern
>  (b) string patterns as strings, without converting into regex.
> 
> split
> 
>  (c) prohibit string pattern longer than 1.
>  (d) string patterns as strings, without converting into regex.
> 
> The meaningful consistent combination must be a-c and b-d.  Which do
> you prefer?
> 
> 							matz.
> 
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